Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments.

Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!

Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.

The paradigm helps a person identify the thought system, which is almost always false, that is behind the rationale for the continuation of excuses. It helps them really look at excuses from an objective point of view and realize that everything they've been thinking is just as likely to be not true as it is to be true.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what's missing, then what's missing, by definition, will have to expand.

The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their intention on what they don't want. They know that what you think about is what expands.